California did some budget surplus refund for everyone and for some reason I got mine on a Visa debit card. Trying to transfer the money to my bank fails is rejected "Invalid transfer amount" gosh what a scam is going on here.
@whack I think a lot of people (all people?) got it on a debit card. I suspect they are looking forward to gobbling up all the useful purchasing data you will generate when using the card.
It *should* allow you to get cash back from, for instance, grocery store purchases, however. I don't recall what the maximum amount of cash back is though.
@kyle From what I've read it seems like about half got bank deposits and half got visa debit cards. I don't like the privacy problems giving so much data to yet another company.
There's some fine print my partner found on the *papers* (not the website) that came with the card that show a bank transfer limit of $600 per transaction (but it's really per *day*), so I was successful in scheduling some of the money to move away.